Yikes, a blast from the past. After the movie came out, you could get your very own Robby Robot, and the ads were all over Saturday Morning cartoons. I must have been in kindergarten, and for show and tell, one little girl got up front to show us all her talking doll, and when she held it up to speak I piped up "I'm Robby the Robot, Mechanical Man!"
Not the last time my mouth got me in big trouble with teacher, but maybe the first.
I agree with Peter about the Kantian noumena. They just don't make Kantian noumena films like that anymore.